Regenerative WorkBench Series · Monthly · Cost-free

AI for Movement Building

A monthly masterclass for food system organizers, veterans, and community practitioners who need to do more with less - starting now.

WorkBench 3rd Wednesday, monthly

Open Q&A 4th Wednesday, monthly

Time 10 AM MountainNoon Eastern

Cost Cost-free

Every month another AI tool launches with promises made for people who already have staff, budget, and bandwidth. This series isn't that.

This is for practitioners who are running coordination work on a shoestring - food pantries stitching together donations, veteran-run orgs writing grants at midnight, community organizers tracking 40 things in a spreadsheet. If you've wondered whether any of this actually helps people who don't have a tech team, this series is your answer: a live WorkBench session every third Wednesday - that's where we pull the tools out - and an open Q&A every fourth Wednesday to work through what you hit when you tried it.

"Every community has the resources it needs. What it lacks is the logistics to make them visible."

- Shannon Dobbs, Regenerative Impact Alliance

What we'll cover

The Setup What NotebookLM actually does and why it matters for practitioners running on limited time. No jargon. No upsells.
Live Walkthrough How Shannon uses AI for field guides, grant research, community briefings, and coordination documents - with real examples from the field.
Your Use Case We'll workshop 3-4 participant contexts live. What does this look like for a food pantry? A veteran-led org? A community health network?
The Free Stack Every tool covered in this series is free or has a meaningful free tier. We're not building a sales funnel. We're building capacity.
Q&A - Its Own Session Every fourth Wednesday is a full open Q&A. Bring what broke, what confused you, what you want to build next. Real questions. No pitch. Recordings go to everyone who registers whether you show up live or not.

Who this is for

Food system organizers managing more logistics than their current tools can handle
Veterans running orgs or navigating services with inadequate staff support
Community practitioners writing grants, reports, or field guides on their own time
Anyone coordinating distributed community work who has heard "use AI" but never seen it done for their kind of work

Register

Cost-free. Recording sent to all registrants.

+ WorkBench → Google Calendar + Q&A → Google Calendar ↓ Download .ics - both sessions (Apple / Outlook)

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Your host

Shannon Dobbs

Shannon Dobbs is a former Army veteran and food security practitioner working at the intersection of logistics, community resilience, and regenerative economics. His methodology holds across every scale - from a neighborhood food pantry to a refugee camp in Kakuma. He leads the WorkBench Series for the Regenerative Impact Alliance, a Colorado educational nonprofit supporting the impact sector from upstream. This masterclass is a direct transmission of what he's learned using AI for that work.

Before your first session

If you haven't already, grab the cost-free AI for Movement Building Guide - the step-by-step walkthrough that shows how to set up your NotebookLM workspace before your first session. That way the masterclass is immediately applicable, not theoretical.

Get the free walkthrough